Alumni Stories

From Waiter To SOC Analyst: How One Flatiron School Grad Turned COVID-19 Into A New Career Path

Interseted in a career as a SOC analyst? Read about how Jonathan G went from waiter to SOC analyst, with help from Flatiron School.
Alumni Stories

From Acting to Big Data Engineer: Chuck Pryor Jr.’s Story

Chuck came to Flatiron School with a dream to work in tech and an extraordinary career that already spanned several professions. He went from barely being able to code to building a Convolutional Neural Network with Image Classification to help patients with peripheral neuropathy better care for themselves.
Alumni Stories

From Marketing Agency Founder to Software Engineer

Olivia started her career as an admin for various tech startups in Denver. Inspired by the work of Software Engineers she launched her own marketing agency and learned to design websites for her clients. That’s when she decided to take her career to the next level and learn how to code.
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From Trumpet Player to Data Integration

Meet Flatiron Grad and Idelic Software Engineer, Matthew McCormack!  He learned coding to add a side hustle to teaching and gigs.  But in the end, the symphony of coding was simply music to his ears. Matthew shares his story, here: What did you do prior to Flatiron? Prior to my time at Flatiron, I was (and still am) a […]
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From Customer Service to Solutions Engineer

Meet New York City Flatiron School alum and Solutions Engineer at Attentive, Mike Diaz! Mike was the Head of Customer Service at a retail company Bonobos. He didn’t have an initial interest in tech but had a desire to build systems and understood that learning to code was an inevitability for all of us moving […]
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The NexTech 100 Scholarship Helped These 4 Students Change Their Futures Forever

Here are just a few of our scholarship recipients and #flatirongrads who are shaping the future of tech.